And because words alone are not enough ... Its pedigree long predates philosophy, which is only 3,000 years old, and science, which is a mere 500 years old. Art deserves much more attention from ...

New research led by the University of Portsmouth has revealed how puppetry and other creative methods can effectively make ...

Following vocal criticism of an initial revision to Iowa’s science education standards that stripped away phrases like ...

Scholars have noted that Mongolian has many horse-related words, that Maori has many words for ferns, and Japanese has many words related to taste. Some links are unsurprising, such as German ...

The simple act of looking at a piece of visual art can boost your wellbeing, a new research study has found, and this benefit can be gained in a hospital setting as well as an art gallery.

In 2023 and 2024, as AI text generators started to become mainstream, a curious trend emerged: the word “delve” began ...

A digital investigation reveals how AI can latch on to technical terminology, despite it being complete nonsense.

Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: “vegetative electron microscopy”.

Scientists at Caltech are using AI to translate what frequent, small earthquakes can tell us about what’s happening below the ...

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Potential treatments need to be subject to the highest standards of safety and efficacy. Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson ...

In fact, they’ve found, huh? is a “universal word,” the first studied by modern linguists. Dingemanse’s team analyzed recordings of people speaking ten different languages, including ...